SINGAPORE- Asia's gasoline crack fell on Monday to reach a two-session low of $4.71 a barrel after touching a six-month high, while naphtha refining margins were at a three-session low of $87.08 a tonne on muted spot demand.
- Buyers were looking past thinner supplies for now, despite production disruptions in the United States and low refinery throughput in Asia.
- Royal Dutch Shell halted some oil production and began evacuating workers from a U.S. Gulf of Mexico platform as new tropical storm Beta flared.
- In Louisiana, a contractor died after a fire broke out on Thursday at Calcasieu Refining Co's idled 135,500 barrels-per-day Lake Charles refinery.
* INDIAN DATA: India's naphtha exports for August at 550,000 tonnes were the highest since May, official data showed. The August naphtha exports also reflected an 83% spike versus July's volumes which were at their lowest in more than 10 years.
- But India's August gasoline exports at 870,000 tonnes were at the lowest since January this year, the data showed.
* CASH DEALS: Three gasoline deals but none on naphtha.
(Reporting by Seng Li Peng; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu) ((lipeng.seng@thomsonreuters.com ; +65 6870 3086; Reuters Messaging: lipeng.seng.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
